LOTT TO BE RULES COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN?

Roll Call (through Drudge)

[RobFromGa]

BOOBY PRIZE: Republicans to offer Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) the chairmanship of the Rules and Administration Committee, ROLL CALL is set to report... MORE

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.), who was in line to head the Rules panel in the 108th Congress, has agreed to step aside to allow Lott to retain some institutional power...

[dead]

Trent acking like he hit up some bubonic chronic and a gang of tang. Sheeat.

[lds23]

Rule # 1:

Stop apologizing, and let people know that it's the Democrats trying to create a "separate but equal" country with affirmative action and quotas.

[RobFromGa]

Lott: I am Taking Over Rules Committee

Friday, January 03, 2003

WASHINGTON — Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi will take over the Senate Rules and Administration Committee when Congress returns to Washington next week, the senator told The Associated Press Friday.

Lott said in an interview with AP's Jackson, Miss., bureau, that he will be chairman of the Rules committee in addition to holding seats on the Senate finance, commerce and intelligence committees.

"I have the experience and the background to be very much a player," Lott said.

Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, the Senate's No. 3 Republican, was slated to become Rules committee chairman. A call to his office was not immediately returned.

The Rules committee controls the assignment and administration of the prized office space on the Senate side of the Capitol, resolves disputes on Senate rules and procedures and controls credentials for the Senate.

The new session of Congress begins next week, and Republicans will make official the heads of the committees at that time.

Lott was expected to become Senate majority leader next week after leading the Senate Republican caucus for more than six years, but was forced to give up his leadership position in December. He had touched off a political maelstrom when he lauded Sen. Strom Thurmond's pro-segregationist presidential run of 1948.

Republicans quickly elected Sen. Bill Frist, R-Tenn., to replace Lott as Senate majority leader when the Senate returns next week.

[Darling Lili]

Al Sharpton should be slammed as a racist!

Good idea.... he's certainly a ripe target!

I see you fly a New York flag on your homepage. If you're anywhere near Sharpton, why don't you get something going on that?

[RobFromGa]

I am not apologizing for anything.

I think Lott made a very stupid remark which destroyed his ability to push the Bush agenda effectively. For the good of his Country and his beliefs, he needed to resign the leadership post. He can now act to repair his image from a less visible position. It appears Rules may be just such a backwater for him. I wish Trent well.

Do I believe that Lott is racist? No.

Do I believe that Lott is the best choice to lead the Senate in 2003? No, again.

Bush has a very important two years ahead of him. He needs the ablest people on his team. Lott was a major libility. Frist appears to be an excellent choice, and the professional medical experience can't hurt. We must active decisively.

[deport]

Purpose and Jursidiction

(Taken from the Standing Rules of the Senate: Rule 25.1.n)

(1) Committee on Rules and Administration, to which committee shall be referred all proposed legislation, messages, petitions, memorials, and other matters relating to the following subjects:

1. Administration of the Senate Office Buildings and the Senate wing of the Capitol, including the assignment of office space.

2. Congressional organization relative to rules and procedures, and Senate rules and regulations, including floor and gallery rules.

3. Corrupt practices.

4. Credentials and qualifications of Members of the Senate, contested elections, and acceptance of incompatible offices.

5. Federal elections generally, including the election of the President, Vice President, and Members of the Congress.

6. Government Printing Office, and the printing and correction of the Congressional Record, as well as those matters provided for under rule XI.

7. Meetings of the Congress and attendance of Members.

8. Payment of money out of the contingent fund of the Senate or creating a charge upon the same (except that any resolution relating to substantive matter within the jurisdiction of any other standing committee of the Senate shall be first referred to such committee).

9. Presidential succession.

10. Purchase of books and manuscripts and erection of monuments to the memory of individuals.

11. Senate Library and statuary, art, and pictures in the Capitol and Senate Office Buildings.

12. Services to the Senate, including the Senate restaurant.

13. United States Capitol and congressional office buildings, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution (and the incorporation of similar institutions), and the Botanic Gardens.

(2) Such committee shall also -

(A) make a continuing study of the organization and operation of the Congress of the United States and shall recommend improvements in such organization and operation with a view toward strengthening the Congress, simplifying its operations, improving its relationships with other branches of the United States Government, and enabling it better to meet its responsibilities under the Constitution of the United States; and

(B) identify any court proceeding or action which, in the opinion of the Committee, is of vital interest to the Congress as a constitutionally established institution of the Federal Government and call such proceeding or action to the attention of the Senate.

(C) develop, implement, and update as necessary a strategic planning process and a strategic plan for the functional and technical infrastructure support of the Senate and provide oversight over plans developed by Senate officers and others in accordance with the strategic planning process.

[Stone Mountain]

Aha... many of us were wondering what they promised Lott in exchange for his resignation...

[hobbes1]

So,now will the Rules comittee be renamed the "Council of Trent"...lol

[RobFromGa]

Looking at those responsibilities, Trent might just submit a bill asking...

1) the Senate Buildings (whom he now controls as Chairman of the Senate Rules Committee) be renamed the "MLK, Jr. Senatorial Complex" and

2) authorizing statuary of the "100 Greatest African-Americans" be chiseled from granite and placed in the garden in between the new "Reparations Center" and the new "Racial Harmony Training Center".

[lds23]

Sorry, I didn't mean you. I meant to say that Lott (and many other Repubs) need to stop apologizing and state their case against racism.

[Once-Ler]

Why is it that the only people who think Republicans are working together are...Republicans.

I bet Lott was told he would have the rules chairmanship, with Santorum's blessing, before he stepped down as SML. The fact that he stepped down as SML but not a Senator shows that he is still playing the game. In fact our party is playing the game very well. There appears to be no rift between Lott factions and Bush factions. There appears to be no Lott faction at all...Just Bush.

Perhaps some that the chairmanship will mean Lott will be in the spotlight...The leftwing media is good but not that good...who cares about the Rules Committee except Senators?
The public couldn't care less.

[Howlin]

Yes, I am! And wasn't it a GREAT game. I enjoyed reading all the great comments about that game right here on FR. I totally agree they are given "special treatment" and have been for years. That being said, I was scared to death we couldn't win. Man, I am SO proud!

However, eddie willers has been making nasty remarks to me about NC State basketball.......LOL.

[RobFromGa]

Nice Job, Wolfpack! (I won't talk about my pathetic Yellow Jackets, though.)

You guys had a great year, and with your coach could go far next year!

[Xenalyte]

Or just the Lott Stabers?

Okay, I'll bite . . . what's a staber?

[Howlin]

For some reason, N.C. State and I-talians work out VERY well. He's a real trip, isn't he?

[byteback]

I actually think that it would be a good spot for Lott. The position allows absolutely no room for imposing policy or opinion, just inforce the rules.

Like enforcing the purgury rule in impeachmant trials?

[deport]

Heck don't be surprised to hear Dixie being played as background music in the hallowed halls of Congress...

[Mo1]

The Rules panel has jurisdiction over the internal workings of the Senate, ranging from doling out office space to handling contested elections. While Rules is powerful within the institution, it does not have the stature of influential committees such as Finance and Appropriations

I'm not sure I like Lott being charge of this

[spald]

"The Rules committee controls the assignment and administration of the prized office space on the Senate side of the Capitol, resolves disputes on Senate rules and procedures and controls credentials for the Senate."

Hildabeast still have the FBI file on Lott?? Let's see what type of office the poor dear gets; then we'll know about blackmail.

[Mo1]

You would think they would put him in a corner somewhere facing the wall with a don't look at me I am an idiot sign on his back.

Works for me ..